The cradleboard is made of birch bark and a wooden hoop. Spruce root is wrapped around the board's edges. The pillow is made of printed cotton, and the model baby's covering is a dark brown ratteen sack material. Silk ribbon is used as an edging around the moss bag, which has been sewn together with linen thread. The doll's cap is made of red wool, and its bib is made from a glazed muslin fabric. His or her face is drawn on with a dark pigment.

Several techniques were used to make this item, including sewing and spruce-root wrapping.

Both CW and RP feel this item was made for the tourist trade.

The dark brown ratteen sack material was popular in the late nineteenth century.

This item can be dated to 1860-1890, based on the fabrics.

This miniature cradleboard was purchased in 1966 by the Pitt Rivers Museum from the Ipswich Museum in Colchester, UK through Patricia M. Butler, its curator at the time.

tikenahgen (written on back)

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), Al Corbiere (AC), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Laura Peers (LP), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).